All-optical manipulation of photonic membranes

Blair C. Kirkpatrick; Martin Ploschner; Tomas Čižmár; Andrea Di Falco

doi:10.1117/12.2238822

16 September 2016 All-optical manipulation of photonic membranes

Blair C. Kirkpatrick, Martin Ploschner, Tomas Čižmár, Andrea Di Falco

Proceedings Volume 9922, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XIII; 99222A (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2238822
Event: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Photonic membranes (PMs) are thin, highly-flexible, membranes which can be imbued with specific photonic functionalities when used to play host to plasmonic features.^1–3 PMs can then take that photonic functionality and transfer it to an external object, provided that they can be manipulated with enough precision. We demonstrate a fabrication and optical manipulation protocol that allows PMs to be manoeuvred through a microfluidic environment, and show that the trap stiffness of such a scheme is on par with current techniques. The PMs shown here are 90 nm thick, with the potential to be extremely flexible. We comment on their current deformability.

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Blair C. Kirkpatrick, Martin Ploschner, Tomas Čižmár, and Andrea Di Falco "All-optical manipulation of photonic membranes", Proc. SPIE 9922, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XIII, 99222A (16 September 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2238822

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